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乙 (Kangxi radical 5,乙+0, 1 stroke,cangjie input弓山 (NU),four-corner1771₀)

1. Kangxi radical #5,⼄.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/乙
• 亿,忆,㲸,肊,䎲,釔(钇),鳦,氹,艺,朰,戹,穵

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 83, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 161
• Dae Jaweon: page 167, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 47, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E59

Historical forms of the character乙
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j29982 j29983 j29984 j29985 j29986 j29987 j29988 j29989 j29990 j29991 j29992 j29993 j29994 j29995 j29996 j29997 j29998 j29999 j30000 j30001 j30002 j30003 j30004 j30005 j30006 j30007 j30008 j30009 j30010 j30011 j30012 j30013 j30014 j30015 j30016 j30017 j30018 j30019 j30020 j30021 j30022 j30023 j30024 j30025 j30026 j30027 j30028 j30029 j30030 j30031 j30032 j30033 j30034 j30035 j30036 j30037 j30038 j30039 j30040 j30041 j30042 j30043 j30044 j30045 j30046 j30047 j30048 j30049 j30050 j30051 j30052 j30053 j30054 j30055 j30056 j30057 j30058 j30059 j30060 j30061 j30062 j30063 j30064 j30065 j30066 j30067 j30068 j30069 j30070 j30071 j30072 Bronze inscriptions b20226 b20227 b20228 b20229 b20230 b20231 b20232 b20233 b20234 b20235 b20236 b20237 b20238 b20239 b20240 b20241 b20242 b20243 b20244 b20245 b20246 b20247 b20248 b20249 b20250 b20251 b20252 b20253 b20254 b20255 b20256 b20257 b20258 b20259 b20260 b20261 b20262 b20263 Small seal script s10940 Transcribed ancient scripts L26039 L26040 L26041 L26042 L26043 L26044 L26045 L26046 L26047 L26048 L26049
References: Mostly from Richard Sears'Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Unknown. Different ancient texts propose different origins.

• Pictogram (象形) – a developing plant (Shuowen).
• Pictogram (象形) – the intestine of a fish (Erya).
• Pictogram (象形) – the gill bone of a fish (Liji Zhengyi (《禮記正義》)

The character should not be confused with 𠃉 > 鳦.

乙

1. The second of the tenheavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))
2. second;2;B;II;beta (used for unnamed people or objects, to enumerate headings in a list, for grades, etc.)

   路人甲和路人乙  ― lùrén jiǎ hé lùrényǐ  ―  passerby A and passerbyB

   他法語成績得了乙。[MSC,trad.]
   他法语成绩得了乙。[MSC,simp.]

   Tā fǎyǔ chéngjì dé leyǐ.[Pinyin]

   He got aB in French.

   乙肝  ― yǐgān  ―  hepatitisB

3. (organic chemistry)eth-;ethyl

   乙烷  ― yǐwán  ― ethane

4. (literary, formal)one

   （公文）……加乙份。[MSC,trad. andsimp.]

   (gōngwén)...... Jiāyǐ fèn.[Pinyin]

   (In official letters) …addedone copy.

   於本店消費滿五百元，即可獲贈優惠券乙張。[MSC,trad.]
   于本店消费满五百元，即可获赠优惠券乙张。[MSC,simp.]

   Yú běn diàn xiāofèi mǎn wǔbǎi yuán, jí kě huò zèng yōuhuìquànyǐ zhāng.[Pinyin]

   Customers spending more than 500 dollars may obtaina coupon.

5. asurname
6. (Cantonese)This term needs a translation to English. Please help out andadd a translation, then remove the text{{rfdef}}.(Classifier:隻／只c)
   • 2023, 5m30s from the start, in笑满岭南七十载：专访第三届广东文艺终身成就奖获得者黄俊英‎^[2]:

     噉我52年入去珠江粵劇團嘅時候，一隻乙噉㗎咋喎。[Cantonese,trad.]
     噉我52年入去珠江粤剧团嘅时候，一只乙噉㗎咋㖞。[Cantonese,simp.]

     gam² ngo⁵ ng⁵ ji⁶ nin⁴ jap⁶ heoi³ zyu¹ gong¹ jyut⁶ kek⁶ tyun⁴ ge³ si⁴ hau⁶, jat¹ zek³jyut³ gam² gaa³ zaa³ wo³.[Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• (Chinese heavenly stems)天干(tiāngān); 甲(jiǎ),乙(yǐ),丙(bǐng),丁(dīng),戊(wù),己(jǐ),庚(gēng),辛(xīn),壬(rén),癸(guǐ)^{(Category:zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}

• → Zhuang:iet

Orthographic borrowing fromJapanese乙(おつ)(otsu).

乙

1. (ACG, sometimes sarcastic)thank you for the hard work in (doing something)

   自演乙  ― zìyǎnyǐ  ― (sarcastically) thank you for your hard work in staging this "drama"

乙

1. (music)Kunqugongchenotation for thenoteti (7).

   Synonym:𢒼(yǐ)(Cantonese opera)

2. (music)Cantonese operagongchenotation for thenotelow ti (7̣).

   Synonym:一(Kunqu)

From笏.

乙

1. (Cantonese)only used in山雞乙／山鸡乙 (a place in Hong Kong)

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on:おつ(otsu,Jōyō)、おち(ochi)
• Kan-on:いつ(itsu)
• Kun:きのと(kinoto,乙)、おと(oto,乙)、かなでる(kanaderu,乙でる)、めり(meri)

Originally fromMiddle Chinese乙 (MC 'it), arising from the proper noun sense. Appears in texts from at least 833 CE.^[1]

• (Tokyo)おつ[óꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞t͡sɨ]

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乙

Wikipedia^ja

乙(おつ)• (Otsu) 

1. thesecond of the tenCelestial Stems

   Hypernyms:天干(tenkan),十干(jikkan)

   Coordinate terms:甲,乙,丙,丁,戊,己,庚,辛,壬,癸

乙(おつ)• (otsu) 

1. somethingB
   1. thesecond item of any orderedlist
   2. (music) onetone lower than thenote indicated by甲(kō,“something A”)
   3. (by extension from the musical sense) a lower,sonorous andmovingsound ortone
   4. (noh theater) innohmusicalaccompaniment, a specific kind ofmuffleddrumbeat played by striking thehead of thetaikodrum and keeping themallet pressed against thehead
2. (Kansai dialect, slang) astupid person, someone who isslow on theuptake
3. (rare, possibly archaic) thestate orcircumstances of a thing
4. (rare, possibly archaic)dressing up in an odd fashion

By extension from themovingtone noun sense. Appears in texts from the lateEdo period, in the early 1800s.^[1]

• (Tokyo)おつ[òtsú] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞t͡sɨ]

乙(おつ)• (otsu) -na (adnominal乙(おつ)な(otsuna),adverbial乙(おつ)に(otsuni))

1. out of the ordinary,strange orunusual in aninteresting orstylish way
2. strange,odd,weird
   • :ja:東海道中膝栗毛 (Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, “Footing It along the Tokaido Road”, or “Shank's Mare”), serial published1802-1814:

     ヲヤ弥(や)次(じ)さん、おつな手(て)つきをしておめへ何(なに)をする

     Oya Yaji-san,otsu na tetsuki o shite omē nani o suru

     Oy, Yaji, what do you think you're doing with yourweird way of using your hands?

Derived as aggressive clipping ofお疲れ様です(otsukaresama desu,used as a kind of greeting at work, literally“that's honorable exhaustion (from hard work)”). The use of乙 for the spelling is an example ofphoneticateji (当(あ)て字(じ)).

• IPA^(key): [o̞t͡sɨ]

乙(おつ)• (otsu) 

1. (Internetslang)clipping ofお疲れ様です(otsukaresama desu)

   自演(じえん)乙(おつ)

   Jienotsu

   I appreciate your acting (a satire of someonesock puppeting to praise himself)

• うp乙(おつ)(upotsu),うぽつ(upotsu)

Compound of木(Ki,“Wood”,one of theFive Elements) +‎の(no,attributive marker) +‎弟(oto,“younger brother”).

• (Tokyo)きのと[kìnóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [kʲino̞to̞]

乙(きのと)• (Kinoto) 

1. the second of the tenheavenly stems

   Hypernyms:天干(tenkan),十干(jikkan)

   Coordinate terms:甲,乙,丙,丁,戊,己,庚,辛,壬,癸

Cognate with the initialoto- in劣る(otoru,“to be less than; to be younger than”),落とす(otosu,“to drop something”).^[3][1] Also the first element in弟(otōto,“younger brother”).

First attested in theKojiki of 712.^[4]

This is distinct from the initialoto- in乙女(おとめ)(otome), which can instead be traced to an earlierwoto- root, cognate with復(を)つ(wotu).

• IPA^(key): [o̞to̞]

乙(おと)• (oto) 

1. [from 712](archaic) ayoungersibling

   Antonym:(older sibling, archaic)兄(e)

   Hyponyms:弟(otōto,“younger brother”),妹(imōto,“younger sister”)

2. [from late 1500s](archaic) theyoungest sibling

   Synonym:乙子(otogo)

3. [from late 1500s](archaic)clipping of乙娘(oto musume,“youngwoman”)
4. [from late 1500s](archaic, Noh theater)clipping of乙御前(oto goze,“astock character in狂言(kyōgen) comic interludes, played as a plump and clumsy but earnest young woman”)

   Synonyms:おたふく(otafuku),おかめ(okame)

乙(おと)• (oto-) 

1. applied to a noun denoting a person, or to a person's name:
   1. next,younger,youngest
   2. beautiful,beloved,cute,dear

• “^△乙”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

乙 (eumhun새을(sae eul))

1. bird

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[4]

乙 (-ol)

1. idu form^? ofᄋᆞᆯ(accusative case marker)
   • 1395,高士褧(Go Sa-gyeong),金祗(Kim Ji),大明律直解(Daemyeongnyul Jikhae) [Correct Translation of the Great Ming Code]:

     本國乙背叛

     PWON.KWUK-ul POY.PAN

     Betray his native country

From a Late Middle Chinese pronunciation of乙 (MC 'it), which lenited coda/-t/ to/-r/.^[1]

乙 (*-r)

1. A consonantalphonogram denoting coda consonant *-r

Generally believed to have been pronounced as*-r, based both on internal evidence and the Chinese etymon. Old Korean尸(*-l) and乙(*-r) both merged unconditionally into *-l in Middle Korean, but the two phonograms were consistently distinguished in Old Korean until the late thirteenth century. Because Old Korean reconstructions are conventionally romanized using their Middle Korean reflex, the phonologically erroneous reconstruction *-l is often used as a shorthand.

• 肹(*-(u)r, *-hur)

乙 (*-(u)r)

1. Accusative case marker
   • 1120,King Yejong of Goryeo, “悼二將歌(Doijang-ga)”, in平山申氏系譜(Pyeongsan Sin-ssi Gyebo) [Genealogy of the Pyeongsan Sin descent group]:

     主乙完乎白乎心聞

     *NIRIM-ur WOPOL-wo-SOLP-wo(n) MOSOm-on

     as for the heart that admired his lord

In Middle and Modern Korean, theallomorph taken by the accusative marker after a vowel may be를 (-reul) instead ofㄹ (-l), especially in formal speech. This is the result ofreduplication of the particle and is unlikely to have been present in Old Korean, although the phonologically opaque nature of the orthography makes it difficult to tell for sure.

In "Middle Old Korean", the late first-millennium stage of Korean represented by about a dozen mostly eighth-century poems, the accusative particle was consistently written with thephonogram肹.乙 has become dominant by the twelve poems of the tenth-century monk Gyunyeo, however, and肹 is virtually not attested at all by the second millennium. There seems to be no semantic difference involved. Whether this represents a phonetic shift or simply a change in orthographic practice is unknown, although肹 and乙 had differing Middle Chinese initials.^[2][3]

• Middle Korean:ᄋᆞᆯ/을(-(o/u)l,accusative marker)
  • Korean:-을(-eul,accusative case marker)

乙:Hán Việt readings:ất^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
乙:Nôm readings:ắt^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]},át^{[1][2][3][4][5]},hắt^[1][2][6][7],ắc^[1][2],ít^[6][7],ngắt^[6][7],ặc^[1],lớt^[1],út^[6]

1. chữ Hán form ofẤt(“second of the tenheavenly stems”)

   Hypernyms:天干,十干

   Coordinate terms:甲,乙,丙,丁,戊,己,庚,辛,壬,癸

2. chữ Nôm form ofắt(“(literary)certainly,surely”)
3. chữ Nôm form ofít(“few,little”)
4. chữ Nôm form ofngắt(“very;highly;greatly”)
5. chữ Nôm form ofút(“lastborn;youngest”)

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